Re: Advice, tasking and hardware

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>]

On 05/27/2016 12:50 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

[a lot of irrelevant stuff]

No response to this post is needed, since it had nothing to do with the specific
point I made and to which he was apparently responding. However, there is a
false statement that should be corrected.

> 3. Ada tasks have problems with termination. The termination alternative design
> makes is unusable in most cases. There must be Shut_Down entry instead and a
> caller of it as well.

I have personally written hundreds of tasks that cannot use a terminate
alternative and do not have an entry to cause them to terminate, yet which
terminate normally when they should. Anyone who can't see multiple ways to
achieve this using only tasks and protected objects should not be considered
competent to develop concurrent software.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I'm a kike, a yid, a heebie, a hook nose! I'm Kosher,
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